Ki Joo-bong
Ki Joo-bong, born in 1955, is a South Korean actor. he majored in film and theatre from Sorabol Art University (now part of Chung-Ang University).
He debuted in 1977 when he established the theater company 76 along with his brother KI Guk-seo, also an actor and stage director. They were not earning a lot, but KI didn’t mind. However, along with his marriage came the moral obligation of feeding his family and so he tried other jobs, without much success. He went back to the stage, and since the late 1990s began to appear in movies.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 1.0906 |
| Birthday | 1955-09-03 |
| Place of Birth | South Korea |
| Also Known As | 기주봉, Key Joo-bong, Ki Jubong, Kee Joo-bong, 奇周峯, Gi Ju-bong, |
2006
Romance
5.5/4
Yoon-hee is harassed by her husband's excessive obsession and crazy love so much that even breathing is painful. Her sudden suicide attempt fails when...
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Romance
1991
Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
8/1
Ji-won, a news anchor woman, witnesses Jung Yong-wook, an emerging leader of the ruling party, being terrorized. She sees the incident from car parked...
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Who Saw The Dragon's Claws?
2021
An Actor Prepares by Gi Gukseo
0/0
Director Gi Gukseo and the actors, who are affiliated with a theater company Gukdan 76, begin to rehearse Samuel Beckett’s Endgame. The actors, includ...
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An Actor Prepares by Gi Gukseo
2000
Joint Security Area
7.832/879
Two North Korean soldiers are killed in the border area between North and South Korea, prompting an investigation by a neutral body. The sergeant is t...
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Joint Security Area
1999
Nowhere to Hide
6.7/57
Detective Woo is on the trail of the mysterious gangster Sungmin, a master of disguise who always manages to elude his pursuers. Eventually, the cop t...
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Nowhere to Hide
2002
Public Enemy
7.141/71
A notorious dirty cop makes an honest attempt to catch a serial killer who even murdered his own parents.
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Public Enemy
2003
Into the Mirror
6.348/92
Woo Yeong-min retired from the police force after trying to save his partner and causing his death. After a series of mysterious deaths in the shoppin...
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Into the Mirror
2003
Sword In The Moon
5.29/50
Kingdom of Joseon, ancient Korea. A usurper has conquered the throne. His ministers are being systematically eliminated by a mysterious assassin. An a...
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Sword In The Moon
2004
Mr. Handy
6.4/10
Righteous perfectionist Hye-jin moves down to countryside to open her own dental clinic after getting fired from her former job. There, she meets this...
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Mr. Handy
2015
Coin Locker Girl
6.987/114
Il-young tries to get away from her adoptive mother because she does not want to get involved in her mother's criminal activities.
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Coin Locker Girl
2023
Kill Boksoon
6.892/573
At work, she's a renowned assassin. At home, she's a single mom to a teenage daughter. Killing? That's easy. It's parenting that's the hard part.
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Kill Boksoon
2021
On the Line
7.628/47
Seo-joon, loses everything to voice phishing and infiltrates a organization in China to meet Kwak Pro, the designer behind this phishing system.
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On the Line
1999
Judgement
6.355/55
At the identification of a dead body, a couple and a morgue employee both claim to be related to the deceased, and therefore the rightful recipient of...
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Judgement
2004
R-Point
6.639/190
On 07 January 1972, the South Korean base in Nha-Trang, Vietnam, receives a radio transmission from a missing platoon presumed dead.
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R-Point
2023
In Our Day
6.9/21
Recently returned to South Korea, an actress in her forties is staying with her friend and her cat. Meanwhile, an aging poet in declining health lives...
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In Our Day
2004
Clementine
3.2/40
Kim, a Taekwondo champion decides to give up his fighting career for good in order to take care of his daughter Sa Rang. But when an evil gambling kin...
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Clementine
2001
Say Yes
5.026/19
Young married couple Yoon-hee and Jung-hyun go on a road trip, and along the way they pick up a lone drifter, M. M turns out to be a violent and sadis...
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Say Yes
2001
My Boss, My Hero
6.2/30
When a young gang leader seems to be just a bit too stupid to effectively carry out his daily tasks, his superiors order him to go back to school for...
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My Boss, My Hero
2001
Friend
6.929/105
Despite their different family backgrounds, four friends grew up together in the wearisome years of the 70s. But as time goes by, each of them takes a...
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Friend
2022
The Novelist's Film
6.5/49
A novelist visits a bookstore run by a young colleague who's been out of touch, then takes a walk with a film director and his wife. She meets an actr...
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The Novelist's Film
2005
The Crescent Moon
5/4
Directed by Jang Kil-soo, the film revolves around a boy and his younger sister, who live in poverty yet in a pure and innocent way. A boy named Nan-n...
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The Crescent Moon
2023
2035: The Greenlight
5/3
In 2025, South and North Korea unified. It was triggered by a sudden explosion in Midnight near the North of DMZ by a forest fire in December, 2024. T...
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2035: The Greenlight
2022
DAEMUGA
6.4/7
Fake shaman Sin-nam is a 20-something graduate of a shaman school. Chung-dam is a real deal, who is possessed by a child god. And swindling shaman S...
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DAEMUGA
2018
The Angel's Time
5/1
Chun Hee is in 11th grade. He was in a movie club at school when his illness recurred and he was hospitalized. There, he meets Joo Hee who is waiting...
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The Angel's Time
2008
My Dear Enemy
6.8/26
Hee-soo is desperate for money and finds her ex-boyfriend who owes her money. He goes around to various ex-girlfriends to get cash and she trails alon...
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My Dear Enemy
2023
At That Time Jessy Was 20
0/0
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2024
The Blood of Desire
5/1
Tortoise, a street thug with a hard life, happens to land a big mission, which he considers a ‘game changing’ chance; an opportunity to go from rags t...
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The Blood of Desire
2001
Sorum
5.634/41
A young man moves into a run-down apartment building and soon gets into a relationship with a neighbor. Both the characters and the building have trau...
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Sorum
2022
Jooyoung in Wonderland
0/0
On her way home during the holiday season, Jooyoung is called back to work. Having to work overnight is annoying enough, but then she gets stuck at a...
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Jooyoung in Wonderland
2024
Peafowl
6.5/2
A transgender woman has cut ties with her family and hometown. She is compelled to go back, however, to perform a traditional memorial drum dance for...
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Peafowl
2015
Right Now, Wrong Then
7.021/170
By mistake, film director Ham Chunsu arrives in Suwon a day early. With time to kill before his lecture the next day, Chunsu stops by a restored, old...
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Right Now, Wrong Then
2009
Lifting King Kong
7/6
Lee Ji-Bong is a former Olympics bronze medalist for weight-lifting, but a career-ending injury from the games forces him into early retirement. Unabl...
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Lifting King Kong
1981
Children Of Darkness Part 1, Young-ae the Songstress
7/1
Young-ae is a prostitute who obsesses over money after losing her daughter to illness. Her co-workers are jealous of her. When a prostitute named Mrs....
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2007
Pruning the Grapevine
5/1
Catholic seminary student Soo-hyeon is having a hard time deciding whether to stay on the road to priesthood or give in to his earthly love for a girl...
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Pruning the Grapevine
2015
Office
6.3/74
To nab a sales manager who's at large after murdering his family, a detective investigates the man's colleagues, who seem to be hiding something.
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Office
2015
The Treacherous
6.092/92
The story of Joseon's tyrant king Yeonsan who exploits the populace for his own carnal pleasures, his seemingly loyal retainer who controls him and al...
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The Treacherous
2015
The Deal
5.7/39
A cop catches a serial killer who murdered his sister but never finds her body. The lack of closure torments him and drives his brother-in-law insane,...
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The Deal
2015
Empire of Lust
6.8/55
In the turbulent Joseon dynasty, army commander Min-jae watches ambitious Prince Yi Bang-won while becoming entwined with Ga-hee, a vengeful gisaeng....
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Empire of Lust
2014
Hill of Freedom
6.7/73
Kwon returns to Seoul from a restorative stay in the mountains. She is given a packet of letters left by Mori, who has come back from Japan to propose...
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Hill of Freedom
2013
The Suspect
6.905/216
Betrayed and on the run, a former North Korean agent tries to seek revenge on the man who killed his wife, find his missing daughter, and uncover the...
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The Suspect
2013
Friend: The Great Legacy
6.629/35
Joon-seok is sent to prison for his involvement in Dong-soo's death. He meets Dong-soo's son in prison, keeps his identity a secret, and agrees to joi...
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Friend: The Great Legacy
2013
The Secret Scandal
6.5/22
A reporter and a prosecutor investigate the death of an actress, and in the process come into conflict with a group of very powerful people. Based on...
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The Secret Scandal
2013
Montage
7.279/210
A woman's child is kidnapped and killed after paying the ransom. 15 years later, a mysterious figure is seen visiting the site of killing and another...
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Montage
2013
Dear Dolphin
5.8/3
One summer night, Cha-kyung dies in a car accident, leaving her boyfriend Hyuk-geun behind in the greatest sorrow. One year since she died, Hyuk-geun...
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Dear Dolphin
2013
Nobody's Daughter Haewon
6.54/62
Facing her mother’s departure and the weight of a secret affair with her professor, college student Haewon drifts through a series of encounters and d...
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Nobody's Daughter Haewon
2011
The Day He Arrives
6.9/85
A film director who no longer makes films arrives in Seoul to meet a close friend. When the friend doesn't show up, he wanders the city aimlessly for...
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The Day He Arrives
2008
Heartbreak Library
6.4/11
Eun-soo, a librarian watches for book vandalism that currently happens in the library. One day, she catches Jun-oh tearing off certain page of books....
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Heartbreak Library
2008
Viva! Love
0/0
An unhappy woman in her 50s is knocked up by her daughter's boyfriend after a one night stand. With the neighborhood in shock and her family up in arm...
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Viva! Love
2008
Night and Day
7/42
Kim Seong-nam travels to Paris to escape an arrest, leaving his wife behind in Korea. After he arrives, he meets an ex-girlfriend and is introduced to...
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Night and Day
2005
Crying Fist
7.247/77
Tae-sik, a troubled middle aged man and Sang-hwan, a troubled youth will meet in the ring with their respective mission. To change their life.
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Crying Fist
2004
The Ghost
6.007/73
Min Ji-won is suffering from amnesia. Her memory slowly comes back, after she discovers that all her friends mysteriously drowned recently. She begins...
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The Ghost
2004
Foolish Game
0/0
Hyun-tae is a competent architect who prefers one-night stands to serious relationships. Heejae doesn’t want to believe in love anymore because she wa...
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Foolish Game
2004
Liar
6.2/5
Man-chul leads two lives, he is married to Myeong-sun and he is also living with Jeong-ae, a wealthy and sexy woman. One day he accidentilly catches a...
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Liar
2003
Tube
5.4/50
Burnt-out transit cop Jay forms an unlikely alliance with pickpocket Kay to stop a terrorist hijacker from blowing up a subway car during rush hour.
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Tube
2003
Save the Green Planet!
7/255
A young man believes that his country's leaders are actually toxic reptilian aliens sent down to launch a takeover of his beloved Earth. So he decides...
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Save the Green Planet!
2002
Sex Is Zero
6.178/143
Eun-sik tries to pass the state exam while studying in college after his military service. One day, he meets a beautiful woman Eun-hyo, and his life c...
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Sex Is Zero
2002
Saving My Hubby
5.8/18
Geum-sun, a former volleyball star, is married to a clumsy husband and has a baby daughter. She struggles to adjust to her boring life until kidnapper...
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Saving My Hubby
2002
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
7.463/1783
A deaf man and his girlfriend resort to desperate measures in order to fund a kidney transplant for his sister. Things go horribly wrong, and the situ...
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Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2001
Bungee Jumping of Their Own
6.5/55
A likeable, married high school teacher spirals out of control when a student in his class begins unintentionally reminding him of his doomed first lo...
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Bungee Jumping of Their Own
2000
Asako in Ruby Shoes
7.1/11
Asako in Ruby Shoes succeeds in providing yet another challenge to views of a homogeneous South Korea by presenting to us the Asian side of modern glo...
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Asako in Ruby Shoes
2000
Out Live
6.5/74
A sweeping, epic tale of a martial arts warrior who attempts to defy a kingdom to be with his love.
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Out Live
2016
Hiya
0/0
Jin-sang, a troublemaker wanted for fraud and murder, struggles to connect with his younger brother Jin-ho, a high school student chasing his dream of...
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Hiya
2010
Maldives Express
0/0
A young couple in search of their missing child receives a disturbing text message.
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Maldives Express
2017
Merry Christmas Mr. Mo
6.4/8
Mo Geum-san is a barber living in the rural area, who once aspired to be an actor. He starts to have doubts about his humdrum life after the village h...
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Merry Christmas Mr. Mo
2017
Misbehavior
5.4/29
Hyo-joo, a temporary teacher at a boys' high school, witnesses Hae-yeong's passionate embrace with a boy, causing her immense humiliation towards her.
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Misbehavior
2017
The First Lap
6/11
Between reproaches over past problems that were never resolved and the uncertainty of a future that is relentlessly coming closer, a young couple take...
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The First Lap
2013
Kong's Family
5/1
Jang Baek-Ho is released from prison after 4 years of incarceration. He wants to open up a noodle restaurant, but he discovers that 5,000 dollars is m...
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Kong's Family
2010
Ha Ha Ha
6.328/64
Over drinks, two friends agree to swap fond memories of their recent trips to the same seaside town. As the stories unfold in flashback, it becomes ev...
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Ha Ha Ha
2003
Wild Card
6.1/15
Two detectives investigate a string of horrific murders in Seoul and zero in on a sadistic gang leader who carries an actual ball and chain.
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Wild Card
2018
Grass
6.6/60
Ahreum sits in a small café, typing on her laptop. Around her, customers enact various dramas from their lives. Is she writing what she hears or is sh...
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Grass
2010
Vegetarian
4.591/11
An ordinary housewife, Yeong-hye, who has nightmares every night, finally becomes a vegetarian, throwing away all the meats in her refrigerator. Her h...
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Vegetarian
2018
Land of Happiness
5/2
When Min-soo's birthday comes, he visits Hui-ja’s house with a feeling of uneasiness. Gladly welcomed by her family, he stares fixedly at the prepared...
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Land of Happiness
2018
The Soup
4/1
An ex-con enters a house without being invited to live with a married couple with intellectual disabilities and their seven-year-old daughter.
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The Soup
2019
Hotel by the River
6.431/72
An aging poet summons his estranged sons to the hotel he is staying at because he feels his death is near; meanwhile, he encounters two women staying...
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Hotel by the River
2018
The Spy Gone North
7.3/225
South Korea, 1993. An agent of the National Intelligence Service is sent to Beijing to infiltrate a group of North Korean officials with the ultimate...
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The Spy Gone North
1999
A Great Chinese Restaurant
6.667/3
Han-kook starts to work as an apprentice chef at a Chinese restauraunt belonging to his father's friend, but rather than follow the painstaking proces...
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A Great Chinese Restaurant
2002
Chow Yun-Fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl
6/2
A big fan of Chow Yun-Fat who works in an illegal arms sales shop finds one day a huge jar allowing him to transform snails into humans...
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Chow Yun-Fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl
2013
Hide and Seek
6.557/105
Sung-soo has everything a man could want: a beautiful wife and children, a comfortable home and luxury car, and plenty of money in the bank. When he l...
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Hide and Seek
2017
The Day After
6.5/94
On her first day at work, Ahreum replaces a woman who broke up with the boss. The wife of the boss finds a love note, bursts into the office, and mist...
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The Day After
2020
An Old Lady
7.3/16
Hyo-jeong, a 69-year-old woman, is raped—but few people, including the police, are willing to believe what she says.
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An Old Lady
1998
The Quiet Family
7.037/216
A family decides to buy a lodge in a remote hiking area. Their first customer commits suicide and the distraught family buries his body to avoid the b...
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The Quiet Family
2000
Die Bad
6.053/19
Die Bad is an inventive feature made up of four distinct episodes, each with their own style. With their criss-crossing characters and themes, they ad...
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Die Bad
2021
Today, Together 2
5/1
These families are nothing like a normal family. In one story, a father and a son do not even say hello to each other once they take a step out of the...
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Today, Together 2
2021
A Day of Kubo the Novelist
2/1
Early in the morning, Kubo goes out to meet his senior KI-young who is editor-in-chief of the publishing company to see if he can publish his manuscri...
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A Day of Kubo the Novelist
2019
Fruits
0/0
The unemployed father kills his time in the library to escape the heat. His son is in the same library, studying for the civil service exam that he's...
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Fruits
2003
The First Amendment of Korea
4.3/10
Eun-bi, an orphaned girl who works as a prostitute, is moved to action when her prostitute friend is brutally gang raped and the police do nothing bec...
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The First Amendment of Korea
2021
Introduction
6.4/35
Youngho is summoned by his father, who is a doctor. Finding him busy with his patients, one of whom is a famous actor, Youngho has to wait. When his g...
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2021
A Distant Place
6/13
A sheep farmer whose remote and quiet life is disturbed by the arrival of both his lover and his twin sister.
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A Distant Place
2014
A Hard Day
7.1/525
After trying to cover up a car accident that left a man dead, a crooked homicide detective is stalked by a mysterious man claiming to have witnessed t...
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A Hard Day
2013
A Blooming Railroad
0/0
The movie starts at Nampyung Station, a small train station, on a day in May. The train from Gwangju was supposed to arrive, but it didn't. Two staffs...
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A Blooming Railroad
2016
Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
7.032/31
In the late Joseon Dynasty, Bongyi Kim Seon-dal is the best conman who sells water from the Taedong River.
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Seondal: The Man Who Sells the River
2012
Iron Bag Mr. Woo Soo
0/0
Woo Soo grew up as an orphan. His life was full of anger, exacerbated by being poor. One day, Woo Soo meets some kids. The children makes Woo Soo real...
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Iron Bag Mr. Woo Soo
2024
Galloper
0/0
“Galloper” is the name of an SUV that Hyundai launched in 1991. At the time, it was the favorite of many Korean men, and the last one was produced in...
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As I Pray and Pray
0/0
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0/0
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This Is a Film
2026
The Burglars
0/0
An elderly woman, Eunja, who lives in the countryside, teams up with Palbok, a burglar, to embark on a spree of robbing empty houses.
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The Burglars
2023
Face that face
0/0
A man who has lived as an ordinary father and husband finally tries to find his authentic self in his twilight years.
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2025
In Da House 3: In Korea
0/0
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2025
Across the Ocean
0/0
One day, an elderly fisherman living on the coast of South Korea discovers a boy swept ashore by a storm. Upon learning that the boy is from North Kor...
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Across the Ocean
2025
My Friend Is a Murderer
3.5/2
Baek Seong-chul has been running away for 14 years and 11 months after being accused of killing a man. When there is only one month left from the stat...
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1997
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
6.341/22
Children who refuse to live with their families or give up on the streets work at a bar or steal money. When you don't have money, you'd rather starve...
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Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie
2017
The Battleship Island
7.174/299
During the Japanese colonial era, roughly 400 Korean people, who were forced onto Battleship Island 'Hashima Island' to mine for coal, attempt to esca...
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The Battleship Island
2026
Coming of Age
0/0
Welding engineer Cheol-taek is diagnosed with terminal cancer one day. This news begins to affect not only his only daughter Jeong-mi, who works as a...
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Coming of Age
2025
The Old Woman with the Knife
6.5/93
Aging assassin Hornclaw has seen it all, but she never expected to mentor a reckless rookie like Bullfight. As their unlikely bond deepens, cracks for...
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The Old Woman with the Knife
2025
Black Snake
5/2
Tae-sik is a so-called "Hit Man" of a gang. But after his boss dies, the gang falls apart; and during a power struggle, Tae-sik's close gang member Gi...
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Black Snake
2025
Choir of God
6.3/3
North Korea, facing international sanctions, seeks assistance from a Hungarian NGO to build churches in Pyongyang as a way to bypass the sanctions. Th...
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Choir of God
2026
Project 30
5/1
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1995
My Old Sweetheart
6/5
A 36-year old detective falls in love with a nihilistic 19-year old shop-lifter and wonders if the relationship which develops can last.
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My Old Sweetheart
2004
Mokpo the Harbor
5.5/6
A detective goes undercover and poses as a gangster to infiltrate a powerful criminal organization connected to a large drug deal.
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Mokpo the Harbor
2026
Dear Wolgeum
0/0
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2026
To the National Road
0/0
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2003
Wonderful Days
6.2/183
Civilization has been destroyed by war and pollution, but the survivors have built the last city of Ecoban. As most natural resources have been exhaus...
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